Jerry Geis wrote:
>> Do you have any "history" with the adapter you connected them to? If
>> not consider it as a possibility as well
>> (from bad experience of total filesystem/partition corruption on two
>> hard drives only to discover it was >something on the motherboard).
>
> Actually yes I used them many times back on C7.5 Both the motherboard
> and USB adapter.
>
I'm a tad confused: you said the USB drive was brand new - did you use
them with C 7.5, or not? Can you try to do a b/u using whatever drive you
used before?
mark